Dr. Rao Yallapragado, Sr. Director, Qualcomm Mobile Broadband
Dr. Rao Yallapragada is the Senior Director of Mobile Broadband Initiatives for Qualcomm. Dr. Yallapragada is a leading expert on OFDMA and CDMA/WCDMA mobile broadband technologies, working with mobile operators, with service providers, regulators and government agencies around the world. Dr. Yallapragada has also been an instrumental part of the IEEE 802.20 working group.
Dr. Yallapragada first joined Qualcomm in 1993 to address the development of wireless performance standards. While at Qualcomm, Dr. Yallapragada has worked on many leading projects including the role as lead systems engineer in the design and development of 1xEV-DO Mobile-Station and Cell-Site Modems. Dr. Yallapragada has served as a key member in leading several projects in the design, development and testing of the Globalstar System and designing essential air-interface algorithms in power control, positioning, system search and acquisition. Dr. Yallapragada has contributed to several academic publications and holds patents in system search and acquisition procedures for wireless systems.
Dr.Yallapragada holds a B.S. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, a M.S. and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology all in Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Erwin De Baetselier, Program Manager, AMDS Product, Agilent EEsof EDA
Erwin De Baetselier was born in 1965. He holds a BS degree in Medical Sciences, an engineering degree in Applied Physics and a PhD degree in electronics. He worked as a researcher in the Faculty of Medicine at the VUB (Brussels University) and at the Electronics and Information Systems department of the Ghent University. He joined Hewlett Packard/Agilent EEsof EDA in 1997 as a research engineer in the SI domain. As off 1999 he was the Agilent EEsof EDA technical support manager for Europe. Since a year he is program manager for the AMDS product.

Stacey Noland, Director, Product Line Management for Antennas,
Powerwave Technologies
Stacey Noland is Director, Product Line Management for Antennas at Powerwave Technologies. She has more than 18 years of experience in the wireless industry. Prior to joining Powerwave, Noland held positions at Andrew Corporation as Product Line Manager for the Antenna Group and Sales for their Odyssey Planning Tool. Before that, she worked for Advantest,
Digital Lightwave and Tektronix.

Dr. Nan Ni, RF Engineer, AgileRF
Dr. Nan Ni got his Ph.D degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2007. He is now a RF engineer at Agile RF, Inc.  Areas of current interests include antenna design, phase shifter design, impedance matching, and package modeling.

Dr. Mary Ann Ingram, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mary Ann Ingram received the B.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983 and 1989, respectively. From 1983 to 1986, she was a Research Engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, performing studies on radar electronic countermeasure (ECM) systems. In 1986, she became a graduate research assistant with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where in 1989, she became a Faculty Member and is currently Professor. Her early research areas were optical communications and radar systems. In 1997, she established the Smart Antenna Research Laboratory (SARL), which emphasizes the application of multiple antennas to wireless communication systems. The SARL performs system analysis and design, channel measurement, and prototyping, relating to a wide range of wireless applications, including wireless local area networks (WLANs), satellite communications, and wireless sensor networks, with a focus on the lower layers of the communication network. From Fall 2006, she has received the Georgia Tech ADVANCE Professorship of Engineering. In the summers of 2006 and 2007, Dr. Ingram was a Visiting Professor at the Center for TeleInFraStruktur (CTIF) at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. Dr. Ingram is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Kirsten West, Principal Analyst, West Technology Research
Dr. Kirsten West has 15 years of experience in Business Development, Technical Marketing and Market Research positions working for both established companies and start-up organizations. Her technical experience ranges from research at NASA Ames Research Center to the Laser Laboratory at University of California at Irvine.

Dr. Frank Caimi, Chief Technology Officer, SkyCross, Inc.
Dr. Caimi has more than 30 years of experience in antenna and RF research and development. Most recently, he served as associate professor of electrical engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. During his career, Dr. Caimi has served as a consultant on communications and signal processing for industry and government organizations, and has more than 18 years experience in technical and leadership management. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Valery Ostrovsky, Development Leader for MW Laminates, CLP Industries Ltd.
Valery holds an MSc in mechanical engineering, with accumulated profound knowledge of material science, polymer processing and applications, related tooling and product design and applied physics and chemistry. Valery’s experience over the last 15 years includes design and technology development of massive producing panel antenna, polypropylene radome compounding and metal foil lamination and bonding it to metals. He led developments of polyolefin to copper/aluminum laminations in order to bring about an inexpensive low loss material that would serve the needs of the panel antenna industry. Before joining the MW Laminate development program at CLP, Valery was the Chief Technologist of MTI Wireless Edge from Israel. Valery is 52 years old, married with 3 children, lives in Israel.

Mike Gaynor, RF Technical Director, Antenova Ltd.
As RF Technical Director, Mike is responsible for RF circuit and system architecture design and development of Antenova’s RF antenna module product line. Mike joined Antenova as part of Antenova’s acquisition of the RF team from Xindium in 2006 and is based in Antenova’s Elgin, Illinois design center. Prior to Xindium, Mike held senior RF positions at CEL, Amkor and Motorola. He has 22 years experience in RF/Microwave product development with an emphasis on transmitter linearization. Mike received his MSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a member of the IEEE and its Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.  He has numerous patents and publications, including a recent book titled “System-in-Package: RF Design and Applications”.

Jeff Shamblin, VP of Advanced Technology, Ethertronics
Jeff Shamblin is Vice President of Advanced Technology at Ethertronics, and is responsible for overseeing all research and development projects for the corporation. Shamblin brings 29 years of experience in antenna engineering to this position.
Before joining Ethertronics, Jeff worked for two RFID start-up companies, SCS Corp and Claridy Solutions. At Claridy Jeff was manager in charge of antenna development and assited in all aspects of RFID relating to antenna and scattering issues. Shamblin previously worked as an antenna consultant providing design and analysis services to several wireless start-ups in Southern California. Prior to his work with RFID, Jeff spent more than 20 years in antenna design and development in the aerospace industry at Lockheed and Northrop where he was responsible for several antenna designs on various aircraft and missile programs. Shamblin holds several patents relating to antenna technology.

Burt Calloway, VP of Air Interface Solutions, KMW Communications
Burton Calloway is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for KMW Communications. He has been with KMW for five years. KMW Communications is wholly owned subsidiary of KMW Inc. a public South Korean company registered on KOSDAQ. KMW is a worldwide market leader in wireless infrastructure to both wireless OEMs and wireless carriers. Calloway introduced the concept of Programmable Antenna Systems Solutions™. He increased significantly KMW’s market share, competitive position and financial value.
Prior to KMW Burton Calloway was the Executive Vice President of Antennas America division of ARC Wireless a NASDAQ OTC Company. At ARC Wireless he established ARC’s mobile antenna division and broadband wireless antenna market leader position. Calloway also worked for Ericsson and A T & T in executive sales management and marketing positions. He introduced strategic marketing to Ericsson and A T & T
Calloway is an author and presenter in the telecommunication wireline and wireless industry. He has several awards for his industry contributions.

Dr. Mohamed Sanad, Founder & CTO, AMANT Antennas
Mohamed Sanad got his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1986. In 1987, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt. In 1991, Dr.Sanad moved to the USA where he was the Director of Antenna Engineering for Wireless Access Inc. He succeeded to invent the first internal integrated antennas for PCMCIA cards in the world, where the antenna is fully embedded inside the card. Dr.Sanad also invented embedded antennas for other hand held portable communication equipment, such as cordless phones.
Dr.Sanad was then approached by Nokia Mobile Phones Inc to be their Director of Antenna Engineering in the USA. He established an antenna laboratory (anechoic chamber) and an antenna research center for Nokia from scratch in San Diego, CA and directed Nokia’s antenna technical strategic planning. At Nokia Mobile Phones, Dr.Sanad invented the first small internal integrated microstrip antenna for cellular phones in the world (where the antenna is embedded inside the telephone).
In 1996, Dr.Sanad started his own antenna consulting company in the USA “Amant-Antennas”. During this period, Dr.Sanad invented compact internal integrated multi-band antennas for different combinations of portable communication equipment such as PCMCIA communication cards, portable GPS, PCS, cellular and satellite phones, wireless telemetry, CDPD, wireless modems and bluetooth applications.
In 2005, Dr. Sanad re-established AMANT Antennas in Egypt with Egyptian investors. Moreover, he is now a part-time professor in Cairo University. He is currently leading a team of engineers in developing innovative antenna technologies.

Dr. Stani Licul, President, Maxtena, Inc.
Dr. Stanislav Licul is President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxtena, Inc. He is responsible for research, development, and manufacturing of innovative antenna technologies based on differential interface and advanced materials. His research encompasses ultra-wideband antennas, multi-band antennas, embedded antennas, phased array antenna systems, RFIC-antenna integration techniques, and antenna measurement techniques. Prior to founding Maxtena, Dr. Licul served as Chief Scientist of Zylaya Corp. focusing on various antenna and wireless propagation aspects of wireless sensor networks. Dr. Licul also served as a research engineer with Motorola EME Corporate Labs focusing on cellular phone technologies in the areas of advanced antenna design and integration. Dr. Licul received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech. During the course of his studies, he interned with Motorola and XM Satellite Radio. His duties included optimization of the paging/satellite receivers and design of antennas for satellite and mobile communications.


Enow Tanjong, Application Engineer, CST of America
Enow Tanjong received the B.Sc. Magna and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
His graduate studies involved the numerical and experimental electromagnetic analysis (modeling) of complex metallic radiating structures including scaled models of vehicles (cars and airplanes). Since 2006 he has been with CST of America as an Application Engineer. His interests include antenna design and antenna placement analysis as well as numerical methods used for these.

Kevin Linehan, Chief Technology Officer, Base Station Antennas, Andrew Wireless Solutions
Kevin Linehan is currently the Engineering Director for base station antenna systems at Andrew Corporation. Prior to assuming a management role, responsibilities have included antenna design engineer positions for base station antennas, terrestrial microwave antennas, and earth station antennas. He has a BSEE from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with post graduate studies at the U of I Electromagnetics Research Lab.


Dr. Douglass Moody , ARINC
Douglas Moody has a diverse background of technology development and applications in military service, aerospace industry, and education. Government service was primarily in communications and radar systems, ranging from local support operations to national policy level and international standardization leadership roles. Academic: teaching both graduate and undergraduate levels. Industrial experience ranges from management of start-up operations to hands-on engineering analysis and design. A current program includes evaluating options for replacing several antenna models used on a family of ground radio sets with a single model to be used by the U. S. Army, Air Force, and Marines. His electronic engineering degrees are from Mississippi State University and Arizona State University. He is a member of the Association of Old Crows and the Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association, and a Life Senior Member of IEEE.

Randy Spensley , Lead Engineer, ARINC
Randy Spensley is the lead engineer on ARINC’s Performance Engineering Test and Sustainment facility in Warner Robins, Georgia. He has over 25 years of engineering experience in the field of Electronic Warfare (EW) Radar Receivers, EW Threat/Radar Simulation, and Military Avionics as a hardware designer, performing a mix of engineering management roles. Many of his efforts involve sustaining older electronic systems through replacement or redesign of obsolescent items. A current program includes evaluating options for replacing several antenna models used on a family of ground radio sets with a single model to be used by the U. S. Army, Air Force, and Marines. His electronic engineering degree is from Arizona State University. He is a member of the Association of Old Crows and the Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association.

Dr. Anurag Mendhekar, Founder , Blue Vector
Anurag started his career at Xerox’s prestigious Palo Alto Research center, where he was one of the inventors of Aspect Oriented Programming, a rapidly spreading paradigm of programming that forms the core of Blue Vector Systems’ products. Along with several scientific publications to his credit, Anurag has six patents awarded with several more pending. Anurag holds Ph.D. and MS degrees in Computer Science from Indiana University, a M.Sc (Engg) from the Indian Institute of Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Bombay University.

Jack Frankosky, OEM Business Development, Arlon-MED
Jack Frankosky has a Chemical Engineering Degree from the University of Delaware.  He has 15 years experience with Arlon, Inc. and 7 years at WL Gore and Associates, Inc.   During his career, Jack has served as a process engineer, product engineer, technical service engineer, Product Manager and OEM Sales Engineer.  He has been involved with products such as DiClad 810, SpeedboardÒC, CLTE-XT, TC600 and TC350.  He currently holds 2 patents and multiple patent disclosures.

Bernd Grohmann, Sr. Director of Product Management, Zensys
Bernd Grohmann is Senior Director of Product Management for Zensys. Prior to Zensys, Grohmann led the Communication Technology Center in Danfoss A/S, where he was the working-Group ViceChair of the ZigBee Alliance. Grohmann has more than 17 years of high technology experience with companies including Andersen Consulting, Retix and NetCS.

Dr. Tayfun Ozdemir, Chief Technical Officer, Monarch Antenna, Inc.
Dr. Tayfun Ozdemir is the CTO of Monarch Antenna, Inc., a Delphi spin-off focused on commercializing the Self-Structuring Antenna (SSA) technology for consumer and industrial wireless markets such as laptops, cell-phones, and wireless sensors. Prior to joining Monarch, Dr. Ozdemir was the founder and President of Virtual EM Inc., an R&D house focusing on high-performance computing, antenna and microwave circuit prototyping, and RFID hardware and software development. At Virtual EM, he was responsible for technology and business development and was credited with winning competitive R&D contracts worth over $1M. Dr.
Ozdemir holds a patent on a planar integrated antenna, and has over 20 years of experience in his field of expertise. Dr. Ozdemir published 6 journal papers, made over 35 conference presentations, and serves as the Chair of the AP/MTT/ED Chapter of the Southeast Michigan Section of IEEE.



John Aubin, CTO & VP of Business Development, ORBIT/FR
John Aubin received a BSEE from Virginia Tech in 1977, MBA from Temple University in 1983, and MSEE from Drexel University in 1988. He is currently serving as Vice President of Business Development and Chief Technology Officer at ORBIT/FR, Inc. in Horsham, PA. Aubin has served as Principal Design Engineer on a number of automated antenna and radar measurement systems ranging from VHF up to millimeter waves, and has authored more than 20 papers on antenna, radar and measurement technology.


Dr. Dennis Kozakoff , President & CTO, USDigiComm Corp.
Dr. Dennis J. Kozakoff is currently President and CTO of the USDigiComm Corporation (GA) where he performed electrical design of various radomes, multiple band pass electromagnetic windows, research of low profile SATCOM antennas, and developed advanced radome analysis programs. He performed terrestrial and SATCOM signal budgets: antenna noise temperature, thermal noise, S/N, bit error rates (BER) and propagation effects.
Prior to his current position, he was President and Chief Engineer of Millimeter Wave Technology Inc (GA) also serving as Project Manager on over twenty-five R&D programs. This included microwave and millimeter wave test instrumentation, and sensors. He performed microwave circuit design and performance analyses. He designed numerous radomes for terrestrial, aircraft and missile applications and ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas, and led the Company in development and production of microwave SATCOM receivers.
Kozakoff holds a BSEE from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (NY), a MSE degree from the University of Florida (FL) and a Dr.Eng. Degree from the Southeastern Institute of Technology (AL), and has over thirty years experience related to microwave and antennas. He has more than 100 significant publications and is inventor or co-inventor of four US patents and three US provisional patents.

Dr. Jerry Glaser, Consultant, Glaser Associates
Dr. Jerry Glaser has worked on antennas, microwaves, radar, millimeter waves at  Bell Labs, Hughes Aircraft. Technology Service Corporation, Lockheed, ITT Gillfillan, iBlast, M/A-COM for over 30 years. He is currently a consultant. He has worked on RF-ID, electronic toys, GPS antennas, and battery-powered X-Band transmitters.
Glaser has taught elementary and advanced electromagnetic theory as an Assistant Professor at MIT and circuit analysis, transmission lines as a Professor at DeVry Institute. He has also given short courses on low observable radar in London, 1994, radar cross section at Point Mugu, 1980, and Goodrich, 2004, electromagnetic simulators at UCLA, 1996, 1997, airborne antennas at TSC, 1985, and Lockheed, 1989, He has published over 35 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and has been issued 3 patents and 8 disclosures.